Open-Sora: Democratizing Efficient Video Production for All

We present Open-Sora, an initiative dedicated to efficiently produce high-quality video and make the model, tools and contents accessible to all. By embracing open-source principles, Open-Sora not only democratizes access to advanced video generation techniques, but also offers a streamlined and user-friendly platform that simplifies the complexities of video production. With Open-Sora, we aim to inspire innovation, creativity, and inclusivity in the realm of content creation. [中文]

Open-Sora is still at an early stage and under active development.

📰 News

• [2024.03.18] 🔥 We release Open-Sora 1.0, a fully open-source project for video generation. Open-Sora 1.0 supports a full pipeline of video data preprocessing, training with acceleration, inference, and more. Our provided checkpoints can produce 2s 512x512 videos with only 3 days training.
• [2024.03.04] Open-Sora provides training with 46% cost reduction.

🎥 Latest Demo

2s 512×512	2s 512×512	2s 512×512
A serene night scene in a forested area. [...] The video is a time-lapse, capturing the transition from day to night, with the lake and forest serving as a constant backdrop.	A soaring drone footage captures the majestic beauty of a coastal cliff, [...] The water gently laps at the rock base and the greenery that clings to the top of the cliff.	The majestic beauty of a waterfall cascading down a cliff into a serene lake. [...] The camera angle provides a bird's eye view of the waterfall.
A bustling city street at night, filled with the glow of car headlights and the ambient light of streetlights. [...]	The vibrant beauty of a sunflower field. The sunflowers are arranged in neat rows, creating a sense of order and symmetry. [...]	A serene underwater scene featuring a sea turtle swimming through a coral reef. The turtle, with its greenish-brown shell [...]

Videos are downsampled to .gif for display. Click for original videos. Prompts are trimmed for display, see here for full prompts. See more samples at our gallery.

🔆 New Features/Updates

• 📍 Open-Sora-v1 released. Model weights are available here. With only 400K video clips and 200 H800 days (compared with 152M samples in Stable Video Diffusion), we are able to generate 2s 512×512 videos.
• ✅ Three stages training from an image diffusion model to a video diffusion model. We provide the weights for each stage.
• ✅ Support training acceleration including accelerated transformer, faster T5 and VAE, and sequence parallelism. Open-Sora improve 55% training speed when training on 64x512x512 videos. Details locates at acceleration.md.
• ✅ We provide video cutting and captioning tools for data preprocessing. Instructions can be found here and our data collection plan can be found at datasets.md.
• ✅ We find VQ-VAE from VideoGPT has a low quality and thus adopt a better VAE from Stability-AI. We also find patching in the time dimension deteriorates the quality. See our report for more discussions.
• ✅ We investigate different architectures including DiT, Latte, and our proposed STDiT. Our STDiT achieves a better trade-off between quality and speed. See our report for more discussions.
• ✅ Support clip and T5 text conditioning.
• ✅ By viewing images as one-frame videos, our project supports training DiT on both images and videos (e.g., ImageNet & UCF101). See command.md for more instructions.
• ✅ Support inference with official weights from DiT, Latte, and PixArt.

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• ✅ Refactor the codebase. See structure.md to learn the project structure and how to use the config files.

TODO list sorted by priority

• Complete the data processing pipeline (including dense optical flow, aesthetics scores, text-image similarity, deduplication, etc.). See datasets.md for more information. [WIP]
• Training Video-VAE. [WIP]

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• Support image and video conditioning.
• Evaluation pipeline.
• Incoporate a better scheduler, e.g., rectified flow in SD3.
• Support variable aspect ratios, resolutions, durations.
• Support SD3 when released.

Contents

• Installation
• Model Weights
• Inference
• Data Processing
• Training
• Contribution
• Acknowledgement
• Citation

Installation

# create a virtual env
conda create -n opensora python=3.10

# install torch
# the command below is for CUDA 12.1, choose install commands from 
# https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/ based on your own CUDA version
pip3 install torch torchvision

# install flash attention (optional)
pip install packaging ninja
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation

# install apex (optional)
pip install -v --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --config-settings "--build-option=--cpp_ext" --config-settings "--build-option=--cuda_ext" git+https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex.git

# install xformers
pip3 install -U xformers --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121

# install this project
git clone https://github.com/hpcaitech/Open-Sora
cd Open-Sora
pip install -v .

After installation, we suggest reading structure.md to learn the project structure and how to use the config files.

Model Weights

Resolution	Data	#iterations	Batch Size	GPU days (H800)	URL
16×256×256	366K	80k	8×64	117	🔗
16×256×256	20K HQ	24k	8×64	45	🔗
16×512×512	20K HQ	20k	2×64	35	🔗

Our model's weight is partially initialized from PixArt-α. The number of parameters is 724M. More information about training can be found in our report. More about dataset can be found in dataset.md. HQ means high quality.

⚠️ LIMITATION: Our model is trained on a limited budget. The quality and text alignment is relatively poor. The model performs badly especially on generating human beings and cannot follow detailed instructions. We are working on improving the quality and text alignment.

Inference

To run inference with our provided weights, first download T5 weights into pretrained_models/t5_ckpts/t5-v1_1-xxl. Then download the model weights. Run the following commands to generate samples. See here to customize the configuration.

# Sample 16x256x256 (5s/sample)
torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node 1 scripts/inference.py configs/opensora/inference/16x256x256.py --ckpt-path ./path/to/your/ckpt.pth

# Sample 16x512x512 (20s/sample, 100 time steps)
torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node 1 scripts/inference.py configs/opensora/inference/16x512x512.py --ckpt-path ./path/to/your/ckpt.pth

# Sample 64x512x512 (40s/sample, 100 time steps)
torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node 1 scripts/inference.py configs/opensora/inference/64x512x512.py --ckpt-path ./path/to/your/ckpt.pth

# Sample 64x512x512 with sequence parallelism (30s/sample, 100 time steps)
# sequence parallelism is enabled automatically when nproc_per_node is larger than 1
torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node 2 scripts/inference.py configs/opensora/inference/64x512x512.py --ckpt-path ./path/to/your/ckpt.pth

The speed is tested on H800 GPUs. For inference with other models, see here for more instructions.

Data Processing

High-quality Data is the key to high-quality models. Our used datasets and data collection plan is here. We provide tools to process video data. Currently, our data processing pipeline includes the following steps:

1. Downloading datasets. [docs]
2. Split videos into clips. [docs]
3. Generate video captions. [docs]

Training

To launch training, first download T5 weights into pretrained_models/t5_ckpts/t5-v1_1-xxl. Then run the following commands to launch training on a single node.

# 1 GPU, 16x256x256
torchrun --nnodes=1 --nproc_per_node=1 scripts/train.py configs/opensora/train/16x256x512.py --data-path YOUR_CSV_PATH
# 8 GPUs, 64x512x512
torchrun --nnodes=1 --nproc_per_node=8 scripts/train.py configs/opensora/train/64x512x512.py --data-path YOUR_CSV_PATH --ckpt-path YOUR_PRETRAINED_CKPT

To launch training on multiple nodes, prepare a hostfile according to ColossalAI, and run the following commands.

colossalai run --nproc_per_node 8 --hostfile hostfile scripts/train.py configs/opensora/train/64x512x512.py --data-path YOUR_CSV_PATH --ckpt-path YOUR_PRETRAINED_CKPT

For training other models and advanced usage, see here for more instructions.

Contribution

Thanks goes to these wonderful contributors (emoji key following all-contributors specification):

zhengzangw 💻 📖 🤔 📹 🚧	ver217 💻 🤔 📖 🐛	nkLeeeee 💻 🚇 🔧	xyupeng 💻 📖 🎨	Yanjia0 📖
binmakeswell 📖	eltociear 📖	ganeshkrishnan1 📖	fastalgo 📖	powerzbt 📖

If you wish to contribute to this project, you can refer to the Contribution Guideline.

Acknowledgement

• DiT: Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers.
• OpenDiT: An acceleration for DiT training. We adopt valuable acceleration strategies for training progress from OpenDiT.
• PixArt: An open-source DiT-based text-to-image model.
• Latte: An attempt to efficiently train DiT for video.
• StabilityAI VAE: A powerful image VAE model.
• CLIP: A powerful text-image embedding model.
• T5: A powerful text encoder.
• LLaVA: A powerful image captioning model based on Yi-34B.

We are grateful for their exceptional work and generous contribution to open source.

Citation

@software{opensora,
  author = {Zangwei Zheng and Xiangyu Peng and Yang You},
  title = {Open-Sora: Democratizing Efficient Video Production for All},
  month = {March},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://github.com/hpcaitech/Open-Sora}
}

Zangwei Zheng and Xiangyu Peng equally contributed to this work during their internship at HPC-AI Tech.

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